In 2023 begon ik het Instagram-project ‘A Simple Clear Note’. Gisteren lanceerde ik het afsluitende bouwwerkje in deze serie. Met dit project wilde ik een aantal van mijn interesses/bezigheden combineren: muziek, film en tekst. Om tot iets concreets te komen, bedacht ik de volgende regels:
Het project wordt gedeeld op Instagram.
Er worden 12 nummers gecreëerd, elk beginnend met de toon op de piano die volgt op de toon van het vorige nummer (dus ik begin met de A, na de A komt Bes, dan B, dan C, enzovoort).
Elk nummer duurt niet langer dan een minuut.
Een tekst/quote dient altijd als inspiratiebron en wordt in het nummer verwerkt.
Elk nummer bevat geluid, beeld en tekst.
Alle nummers moeten in 2023 uitgebracht worden.
Aan de laatste regel heb ik me niet gehouden; verder heb ik de regels strikt gevolgd.
Het resultaat is nu niet alleen op Instagram, maar ook op YouTube te zien en horen.
Hoewel ik mijn Substack in de regel gebruik om mijn eigen schrijfsels te publiceren, wil ik hier toch graag de quotes die ik gebruikte voor ‘A Simple Clear Note’ publiceren. Omdat al deze tekstjes ook van invloed zijn op mijn eigen schrijven, omdat ze inspireren, omdat ze de boel in het hoofd levendig houden. Veel leesplezier en tot de volgende…
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A
“Like picking up a new and unfamiliar musical instrument, the first necessary step involves taking the time to get a simple clear note, usually the simple clear note of forgiveness that comes in allowing yourself the right, at this stage, not to know anything at all.”
- David Whyte (Consolations)
Ais
"(…) there is no real me: only an entity, something illusory. And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there."
– Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
B
"Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders."
– Friedrich Nietzsche (Jenseits von Gut und Böse)
C
"It's like people had a choice a long time ago between having all them nice things or freedom. Of course, they chose comfort."
– Jonathan E. (Rollerball)
Des
"... there was a point when I wanted to say to them, All right, you have died, I know that, and you've been dead for a while, we have all absorbed this and we've explored the feelings we had at first, in reaction to it, surprising feelings, some of them, and the feelings we're having now that a few months have gone by--- but now it's time for you to come back. You have been away long enough."
– Lydia Davis (Can’t and Won’t)
D
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
– Charles Darwin (The Origin of Species)
Dis
“Dip dive, socialize, try to make you realize that we are qualified to rectify and hypnotize that burning desire to boogie y’all.”
– Grandmaster Flash / Cowboy (Simpson Street)
E
“For each ecstatic instant, We must an anguish pay, In keen and quivering ratio, To the ecstasy -.”
– Emily Dickinson (Verzamelde gedichten)
F
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom.”
– David Foster Wallace (This is water)
Fis
"Humans are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness."
- Sigmund Freud (Civilization and Its Discontents)
G
“…an essentially mechanical world would be an essentially meaningless world! Supposing we valued the worth of music with reference to how much it could be counted, calculated, or formulated - how absurd such a "scientific" estimate of music would be! What would one have apprehended, understood, or discerned in it! Nothing, absolutely nothing of what is really "music" in it ! …”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (La Gaya Scienza)
Aes
“Our entire way of conceiving ourselves is based on this drastic oversimplification which is just a story we tell ourselves, and the degree to which this notion called I is real is debatable - and I’m inclined to think that it is a mirage…”
- Douglas Hofstadter (A strange loop conference)